Tag: the human condition
member name: Rory M.
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July 29, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
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September 08, 2007 11:55 PM EDT --
My Mom is a stalker.
She follows me everywhere I go.
When I’m playing in the back yard, she watches me through the slats on the blind. She thinks I can’t see her, but I can.
She drives me . . . more
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December 31, 2007 06:45 PM EST --
The United States of America sits atop the world as the most powerful nation, a stunning feat by a country little over 200 years old. It is the pre-eminent military power, the strongest and wealthiest . . . more
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June 19, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
The little fixer-upper we bought when we moved to our quaint rural retreat sixteen years ago came with one distinct concern of which we were well aware: water.
Our house gets its water from a 400 foot . . . more
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July 25, 2007 10:26 PM EDT --
In mid June I began a project I called The Gather 30 Day Countdown.
We have all seen fellow Gatherers get disillusioned, enraged, outraged, plain old pissed off and sign off the site permanently . . . more
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August 05, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
Up here in "The Great White North" we have a national, publicly owned broadcaster called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC. This is a public broadcaster that does earn some of its . . . more
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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . . more
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October 14, 2007 11:01 PM EDT --
Everyone who does laundry on a regular basis knows the mysterious nature and frustrating prevalence of odd socks.
Rarely do symmetrically limbed people wear a single sock. One either goes sockless . . . more
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October 22, 2007 07:56 PM EDT --
Language is the main tool we have for expressing our thoughts, ideas, feelings, hopes, dream and fears to one another. Each of us has our own distinct history, frame of reference, point of view, . . . more
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June 14, 2008 12:01 AM EDT --
When I was in my late teens I owned a motorcycle. During a period of some months I lived out on the West Island of Montreal and worked downtown, a distance of about 17 miles away, commuting to . . . more
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July 11, 2007 12:14 AM EDT --
The good old hockey game, as Stompin' Tom Connors observed, is the best game you can name. Canadians always have difficulty defining their national identity and finding commonalities that unite them. . . . more
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September 09, 2007 12:16 AM EDT --
When Janice woke up, everything seemed the same. Her same old slippers were lying on the floor beside her bed, same as always. Her same old bathrobe was hanging on the end of her bed, just the same as . . . more
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
Getting back to nature. Living off the land. Embracing the natural world and sacredness of our Earth Mother.
These concepts have been very popular in recent decades. Going back to the 1960s, people have . . . more
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October 29, 2007 12:12 AM EDT --
Dreaming is an interesting phenomenon. It is said that we dream a lot more than we remember and, indeed, it is often true that one awakens with the remnants of a dream quickly fading.
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November 17, 2007 05:53 PM EST --
"No good deed goes unpunished."
"Help someone out and you get screwed every time."
"Nice guys finish last."
We have many such cliches that reinforce . . . more
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August 11, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
The word "money" has uncertain etymological origins, though it is probably derived from the Latin (of course) moneta which was a title given to the Roman god Juno whose temple was near to the . . . more
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November 19, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
The knee-jerk answer to this question, the one almost everyone gives without pausing even a micro-second to think about their response, the one on many people's lips much of the time, the one . . . more
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May 02, 2008 10:44 PM EDT --
If I were to tell you that I was exceptionally tall you would not take this as a statement of conceit or hubris. Either it would be a factual statement or a delusional one. In person, you . . . more
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May 17, 2008 10:04 AM EDT --
Words. They are very powerful things.
Of all the many inventions of human kind, words, sound that convey an endless range of meanings, must be amongst the most important. They can . . . more
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July 05, 2007 11:32 PM EDT --
Mandy knew to the minute when she had first started to become suspicious: 12:43 p.m. last November 8th, a Thursday. She was running late, having intended to take a short lunch break. The sales guys were . . . more
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